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Central Anatolia, Turkey's volcanic heart
Central Anatolia, Turkey's volcanic heart
South of Turkey's capital Ankara you can find some of the most astonishing landscapes of the planet. Here, in Cappadocia, soft volcanic tuff has been sculpted into fantastic shapes by millennia of erosion: huge pillars and mushrooms, valleys of "folded paper" and tuff cones in which early Christians carved their vibrantly painted churches. A stark contrast is provided by the barren salt flats of Tuz Gülö and the austere capital of the ancient Hittites: Hattusha.
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'Fairy chimney in the making.'
'Fairy chimneys' catch the early sunlight in the White (Baglidere) Valley, north of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. These huge pillars are sculptured by erosion from soft volcanic tuff layers. They are topped by a cap of harder more solidified ash (ignimbrite) which protects them from further degradation. In the left foreground a pillar can be seen which is in the process of being 'freed' from the tuff plateau that borders the valley. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
'Fairy chimney in the making.'
'Fairy chimneys' catch the early sunlight in the White (Baglidere) Valley, north of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. These huge pillars are sculptured by erosion from soft volcanic tuff layers. They are topped by a cap of harder more solidified ash (ignimbrite) which protects them from further degradation. In the left foreground a pillar can be seen which is in the process of being 'freed' from the tuff plateau that borders the valley. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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'Fairy chimney in the making.'
'Fairy chimneys' catch the early sunlight in the White (Baglidere) Valley, north of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. These huge pillars are sculptured by erosion from soft volcanic tuff layers. They are topped by a cap of harder more solidified ash (ignimbrite) which protects them from further degradation. In the left foreground a pillar can be seen which is in the process of being 'freed' from the tuff plateau that borders the valley. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
'Fairy chimney in the making.'
'Fairy chimneys' catch the early sunlight in the White (Baglidere) Valley, north of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. These huge pillars are sculptured by erosion from soft volcanic tuff layers. They are topped by a cap of harder more solidified ash (ignimbrite) which protects them from further degradation. In the left foreground a pillar can be seen which is in the process of being 'freed' from the tuff plateau that borders the valley. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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